Ellen Heck has received degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Brown University. She works as an artist, writer, and illustrator in North Carolina and is represented by galleries in the United States and the United Kingdom. Her artwork, The Bath, was recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Ellen uses project-based visual art to explore the question: What makes something something? She believes the answer lies in the relationship between things, which has led to several projects involving print media and recurring imagery. While identity statements differ across fields (in mathematics, the equal symbol equates concepts, while in the arts, metaphor often plays this role), Ellen finds that interesting things happen when the concepts being linked, or the way that they are linked, changes. When that change sparks an idea, magic occurs. Through art, Ellen hopes to not just convey ideas, but recreate those sparks of inspiration in others.
Ellen uses project-based visual art to explore the question: What makes something something? She believes the answer lies in the relationship between things, which has led to several projects involving print media and recurring imagery. While identity statements differ across fields (in mathematics, the equal symbol equates concepts, while in the arts, metaphor often plays this role), Ellen finds that interesting things happen when the concepts being linked, or the way that they are linked, changes. When that change sparks an idea, magic occurs. Through art, Ellen hopes to not just convey ideas, but recreate those sparks of inspiration in others.